dcom Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 (edited) Someone ostensibly found a HQ rip (320 CBR) of A Few Old Tunes on Soulseek. Download here. Edited October 30, 2020 by dcom 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YangYing Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlemflolia Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 so what is this? is it a new rip? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcom Posted October 30, 2020 Author Share Posted October 30, 2020 (edited) 7 minutes ago, cyanobacteria said: so what is this? is it a new rip? I've never heard AFOT sound as good as the download. It's already also available on BoCpages. Edited October 30, 2020 by dcom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xy_politics Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 digitally denoised, a lot of the ambience scraped away.. i'll stick with the 192, it's more faithful. why do people feel the need to mess with tape rips? it's like all those ropey copies of melodies from mars 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcom Posted October 30, 2020 Author Share Posted October 30, 2020 (edited) 33 minutes ago, xy_politics said: digitally denoised, a lot of the ambience scraped away.. i'll stick with the 192, it's more faithful. why do people feel the need to mess with tape rips? How did you determine that it's a digital restoration? I used the word ostensibly purposefully, I have reservations by default as well. NVM, it's been confirmed to be a repackaged and re-encoded restoration job. Edited October 30, 2020 by dcom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xy_politics Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 oh, just the sound of it - like the music is half-submerged in black, inky goo. i've spent a good amount of time working on restoration and denoising, and it's very, very difficult to get right, particularly for the more delicate electronic music, it just gets destroyed. why i don't listen to kraftwerk's remasters - and they spent years trying to get it right, with no doubt the very best equipment. autechre warp tapes 89-93 was an impressive job though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 15 minutes ago, xy_politics said: why i don't listen to kraftwerk's remasters i have an original pressing of TEE and computer world and the remasters sound just as good. very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlemflolia Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 this is what i thought house of abinadab legitimately hurt my ears Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Mughnus Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 That doesn’t make any sense Zeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 So we got a BOC release this year after all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 19 hours ago, dr lopez said: i have an original pressing of TEE and computer world and the remasters sound just as good. very good. Imo the kraftwerk remasters are the epitome of how to do it properly. everything about them is excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xy_politics Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 17 minutes ago, Alcofribas said: Imo the kraftwerk remasters are the epitome of how to do it properly. everything about them is excellent. Turns out I haven't heard the 2009 versions - I still had the 2004 promo set, which is dire, didn't know they'd done it twice.. A quick sampling and the 2009s seem to be really good, more like louder, punchier versions of the originals without all the life drained from them. Looks like I have some downloading to do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 1 hour ago, xy_politics said: Turns out I haven't heard the 2009 versions - I still had the 2004 promo set, which is dire, didn't know they'd done it twice.. A quick sampling and the 2009s seem to be really good, more like louder, punchier versions of the originals without all the life drained from them. Looks like I have some downloading to do! yeah the 2009 ones are legit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 On 10/30/2020 at 9:55 PM, xy_politics said: digitally denoised, a lot of the ambience scraped away.. i'll stick with the 192, it's more faithful. why do people feel the need to mess with tape rips? it's like all those ropey copies of melodies from mars just had a listen and this new rip does indeed sound awful. the tracks just sound like really bad mp3s, if your prefer lossy frequencies to tape hiss than you're listening to the wrong bootleg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markedone Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 On 10/30/2020 at 5:33 PM, dr lopez said: i have an original pressing of TEE and computer world and the remasters sound just as good. very good. those remasters sound good, but as you admit they were already starting with very high quality source material. i have TEE original pressing as well and it sounds excellent. so the objectives are quite different with that kind of remaster as opposed to "cleaning up" something lo-fi. im not intimitely familiar with this boc album so i cant comment if they lost any detail with this remaster. it does sound quite clean though on first listen, sort of what i imagine it would sound like if they put out an official release (infamous boc-set). but i probably wont bother to download this, as the lofi qualities of the original tape never bothered me, it fits the music yknow.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien Sugar Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Sounds great. I daydream about them flooding bandcam. Remember when they said they thought someone was going to come out with an album with notthing but a little tunes album. I imagine an 80 minute cd by them. But yes, i insist THEM doing a bandcamp. I know they have one with, warp? I'm wondering if they're gonna do a summer/pop type album dedicated to what i hear could be the end of covid by 2022. Or earlier than that. :( 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien Sugar Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 On 11/5/2020 at 10:48 AM, Dragon said: just had a listen and this new rip does indeed sound awful. the tracks just sound like really bad mp3s, if your prefer lossy frequencies to tape hiss than you're listening to the wrong bootleg. You have the tape with it's wonderful heavenly hiss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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